Sweet Potatoes
Oct. 24th, 2009 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI've always told myself I'd rather pay extra to buy my sweet potatoes in a can and not have to deal with raw sweet potatoes. But Robin got a bunch of sweet potatoes with his other vegetables in his CSA delivery.
I didn't even know what they were at first. They looked sort of like carrots, except that most of them were awfully fat. And they looked a little like potatoes, but like very long, skinny potatoes.
I found a recipe for sweet potato pie which started with raw sweet potatoes. I boiled them. Then it said to remove the skin. I wasn't totally sure if it was just the very thin dark outer layer that was supposed to come off or whether there was a thicker layer.
Above is one of the more carrot-shaped ones. You can easily see the skin peeled away and you might also be able to see the edges where a thicker layer came off.
Robin tells me just the thin skin layer should come off.
And getting the skin off reminded me of hard-boiled eggs. It seems like it could be easy. It could be possible to take off large expanses all at once, but what actually happens is that mostly just little bits come off at a time. It got a little easier at the end, probably not due to any gain in skill on my part but because the sweet potatoes had cooled off more. I did drain off much of the hot water and run cooler water over them, but waiting may have helped.
So now I have about four pounds of sweet potatoes. It's time to try some new recipes.
I didn't even know what they were at first. They looked sort of like carrots, except that most of them were awfully fat. And they looked a little like potatoes, but like very long, skinny potatoes.
I found a recipe for sweet potato pie which started with raw sweet potatoes. I boiled them. Then it said to remove the skin. I wasn't totally sure if it was just the very thin dark outer layer that was supposed to come off or whether there was a thicker layer.
Above is one of the more carrot-shaped ones. You can easily see the skin peeled away and you might also be able to see the edges where a thicker layer came off.
Robin tells me just the thin skin layer should come off.
And getting the skin off reminded me of hard-boiled eggs. It seems like it could be easy. It could be possible to take off large expanses all at once, but what actually happens is that mostly just little bits come off at a time. It got a little easier at the end, probably not due to any gain in skill on my part but because the sweet potatoes had cooled off more. I did drain off much of the hot water and run cooler water over them, but waiting may have helped.
So now I have about four pounds of sweet potatoes. It's time to try some new recipes.
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on 2009-10-24 06:24 pm (UTC)Seriously, SO good.